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B: This is April 26, 1974, I'm Lou Barton interviewing fDr the University

of Florida's History Department, American Indian Oral History Program.

This afternoon I'm in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Hunt in the

Prospect area, and with me is Mrs. Hunt, who has kindly consented to

give me an irntt interview. Would mind telling us what your name is?

H: Peggy Hunt. IxkrexygHxasExIt n axxka3x i ngxakdxkgxixxtkK

E: I knew you as Mrs. Hunt. You have lived here in the Prospect area All

your life?

H: Nineteen years.

B: And who is your mother and father?

H: Deborah Locklear is my mother.

B: Deborah?

H: Deborah.

B: And who is your husband?

H: Bobby Hunt, Peter Hunt's baby boy.

B: I see. And so you are the daughter-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hunt?

H? Yeah.

B: How many children do you have?

H/ I have two girls.

B: May I c&ll you Peggy?

H: Um hm, yeah.

B: What are their names and ages?

H: The oldest one is Bobby Lynn Hunt who's two years old, and the baby is

Jonathan jDavid Hunt, kmx one-year old today.

B: Were you born and brought up here in the Prospect area?

H: Yes.

B: Are you a good, de Prospecter too?

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H: Oh yeah.

B: There's some kind of special magic about our community, isn't there?

H. Yes

B: May I ask you your age, you're very young?

H? Nineteen.

B: How long have you been married*

H: Two years. Three years, this August.

B: Do youthink Indian girls usually get married pretty young?

H: Some. The kind that like to enjoy theirselves stay young.

B: You're not sorry you're not having afterthoughts, are you?

H: No, I'm not sorry I got married.

B: You're one of the lucky couples. I've seen some couples that were

sorry they got married. Now which one of the children is this baby

you're holding in your arms ow?

H: It's the baby boy, Jonathal& I\r / )\ 'I

B: And you said hW's how old?

H: He's one year old today.

B: He's a fine boy. Did you go to Prospect to school, Peggy?

H: Yes.

B: How far did you go through school.

H: I finished the eleventh grade.

B: Did you like to go to school?

H: Yeah, I loved to go to schoolbut I got messed up last year.

B: What happened? Or shouldn't I ask? Well, I won't ask, that's a

EtBA personal question.I' Let me see, you got out of school two years

ago?

H: Um hm.

B: Did you see any particular problems going to school

H: No, I enjoyed it *

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I: Did you have a counselor out there?

H; RK Yeah, at the time, it was Bobby Dean Locklear.

B: And he is now the Rebetts-n County Commissioner?

H: Um hm.

B: From this area?

H: Yeah.

B: I know him personally.

H: Then yoy know Dr. Bowers? our principal, and now the principal is

JaS o Jnones.

B: Is Prospect growing and getting bigger all the time?

H: Yes it is 4 We, .. since he's been the principal. There are a lot of

things that's changed.

B: Were people unhappy when Mr. left?

H: No, they were a lot loved. And the teachers, some of the teahcers cried

whenever he left.

B: He seemed to be a very devoted man. He lovednt* children, loved to help

teach you, helped all he can, I'm sure.

H: Yes.

B: What do you think about changes taking place in Robe*son County?

Can you see anything changing since you were younger?

H: Rx Oh, yeah. There a lot, there a lot changing.

B: Peggy, you're still young. Let's talk about young people. OK?

H: OK.

B: I love young people;-I've worked with young people a lot and I get

along with them fine. But this is not true of everybody. Of course,

I've made special effort to bridge this, so called, generation gap.

You know what I'm talking about when I say the generation gap?

H: Um hm.

B: The gap between older people and younger people when they don't seem to

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understand each other and they can't communicate and talk with each

other as they ought. Now, have you experience d anything like this?

In your life, was it anyghfct anything of a problem for you? Did you

find it hard to talk to older people?

H: No, I always loved to talk to older people, you know, to see what

happened in their life, JQe. what's changed.

B: How about family training among our people in this area, in the

Prospect area, particularly. Are the parents usually pretty strict on

the r Sand so on?

1: Yes. My mother was very strict.

B: Xx Sx Do you think you can be too strict?

H: Yes, you can be too strict, but not strict enough.

B: / extreme.,.,..

H: Yeah.

B: Do people still practice, you know, methods of punishment, you 4now

discipline as they did years ago? I mean, when children do something

do they get punished?

H: Yeah, but they don't spank them now like they did in the other days.

B: You probably wouldn't remember this, but there was a time, for example

when I was going to school, and you know, in high school, if you did

something atschool and got punished when you came home you got it

again.

H: Yes, I hear my mother talk a lot about that.

B: But that's changing, isn't it?

H: Um hm. Now they'll give you things to do, like you have to write

Rxx a thousand word theme. My sister come home yesterday from XMS school

and she had to, the teacher caught her chewing chewirgi gum and she

had to write a thousand-word theme. Words, for chewing chewing gum.

That was her punishment.

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B: Well, that's not too strict a punishment though, is it?

H:; No.

B: It's not like the old Hickory limb. I've heard people talk about

that, in fact, I remember in my own time, not a Hickory limb kt

xxfKtkEhliterally, but a switch.off of the tree.

H: Yeah, Mom would whip me with anything she could get her hands on.

She'd whip me with it.

B: She meant for you to hear her, didn't she?

H: Yeah, she'd say it don't hurt you as much as it hurts me.

B: But you couldn't believe that, hardly, could you?

H: No. ,pRi *

B: Well, I'm sure that some of the people feix feel that the old-

fashioned spanking and that sort of thing. Do you think, do you

think lots of things are changing?

H: Yes.

B: Have you lived kk in the Prospect area all your life too?

H: Yes. I go to Prospect church.

B: Is this PROSPECT Methodist?

H: Um hm.

B: Who is the pastor w ?

H: I don't know his name, Harvey ? Yeah, Mr. Harvey. Our pastor

used tobe *> Cummings4K,,

B: What is his, you know yx his last names S?

H: What"s Harvey's last name?

J 4: Harvey /O. *

H: Harvey /r. I didn't know him too much like I did our other

pastor.

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B: What do you think about, I'm going to ask you now, you're not long

out of school, so you know about problems of young people, you know

what they have to go through, you know what it's like. What is it

like to be a teenager these days? Could you tell me something about

that?

H: No, 'cause I married young. I was seventeen when I got married and

I didn't get to go around places like a lot of the teenagers does

today.

B: I'll bet you only dated one guy in your life.

H: That's all--and I married him.

B: Well, that's nice. This often happens, though, doesn't it?

H: It sure does.

B: I"m sure that whatever young people do today, they have reasons for

doing it, there's reasons for everything. How about, of course, you

never had to go talk to a counselor or anything like that, did you?

H: No. No, only when I'd get to come home.

B: Did you have a counselor?in school?

H: Bobby Dean lI- is.

B: Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm 44La i or something, I'm a little bit

tired. How about, there's another thing they have in school sometimes,

they call it the hygiene class, and some schools have it might sound

outlandish to some people, but some schools teach sex education in school,

did you have anything like that?

H: Yes, in Home Ec they called it at the time.

B: This was part of your Home Ec class?

H: Yeah, it was only, special for girls, but somehow they got a few boys

out there since I've quit out there at school. But at the time I was

going it was just for giris to learn how to sew and cook and then they

started you know, teaching about life.

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B: Well, that's a part of, that's a part of homemaking too, I guess.

H: Yeah, um hm.

B: That's part of it for married people.

H: They would show us films about it. All about the diseases, you know.

B: Yeah. Well, how did people feel about that when they first started it,

did they .........................?

H: MY mother didn't like too much about it 'cause she never did tell me

anything, nothing about sex. I couldn't ask her anything about babies,